the boys #6 spoiled

[ultramandingo]

hey get me , im in dublin , drinkin a guinness , postin on a ennis book! got it at sub city) big fight , wee huighie punches a hole in blarney cock ( oops) buthcher gets wee huighie to stay tells his secret origion ...and a hamster wraped in duct tape . who said this book was tastless

[Mr. Palmer]

I sure didn't say it was tasteless! :p

Unfortunately, this book (along with Jonah Hex) fell on the chopping block of my pull-list. Strangely, I don't miss it...

[Tobias March]

hey get me , im in dublin , drinkin a guinness , postin on a ennis book! got it at sub city) big fight , wee huighie punches a hole in blarney cock ( oops) buthcher gets wee huighie to stay tells his secret origion ...and a hamster wraped in duct tape . who said this book was tastless

Dude! Third Place on Crow St. not Sub City...they charge too much. And the owner guy freaks me out, he's intense.

[ultramandingo]

Dude! Third Place on Crow St. not Sub City...they charge too much. And the owner guy freaks me out, he's intense.

went there , they and forbiden planet didnt get their shipment ( man you guys have to wait till thursday / friday!!!!! thank god my ancestors got to the new world and killed the natives so i could get my funnybooks on wensday!!!!!) , but the other place on crow st ( forget the name ) was playing cool pirate sea shantys ( got some 2000 ads)

[Tobias March]

went there , they and forbiden planet didnt get their shipment ( man you guys have to wait till thursday / friday!!!!! thank god my ancestors got to the new world and killed the natives so i could get my funnybooks on wensday!!!!!) , but the other place on crow st ( forget the name ) was playing cool pirate sea shantys ( got some 2000 ads)

Yeah mate of mine used to work for him. He's a dosey fella, but pretty cool and you can find some real gems in that shop.

My flatmate's girlfriend bought him an unopened original Optimus Prime toy from that shop :D So he's good people.

[ultramandingo]

......not to turn this into "my comic buying trip to ireland " but , no shops in cork , skiperdeen or dingle ( fun to say! ) but everthing looks like a set from "lord of the rings" and lots of old guys speaking klingon or somthing . back in dublin saturday more drinkin and spandex!

[sgt pepper]

Who would've thunk that the issue that features a gerbil crawling out of a guy's ass (and has the balls to put it on the cover) would be the least outrageous of the series so far?

So now we know who watches the watchmen and why. I guess this is Ennis's response to Civil War?

But if the government has the ability to make a small task force, why don't they just use more of the blue goo and create entire police forces and armies of well trained supercops if the current heroes are such fuck ups? Why waste time policing these wasters instead of just replacing them with a government sponsored, trained task force? Super plot hole?

[Leebenhouse]

There is such a thing as bad cops, and the blue shit is hard to get ahold of, in comic book terms, a couple million+ per super dosage.

[ChthonicSpirit]

But if the government has the ability to make a small task force, why don't they just use more of the blue goo and create entire police forces and armies of well trained supercops if the current heroes are such fuck ups?

I get the impression the boys were Butcher's idea, albeit an idea the government were willing to pay for. And yeah, the blue goo is supposed to be rare, even in it's impure form.

[josh straightedge]

Another awesome issue. This is quickly becoming my favorite monthly book.

[Sparda]

This issue was awesome and I can't believe Hughie just gotten that gerbil out of that dude's ass. Now that we finally see the Boys in action and are more acquainted with thier verse, I hope in future issues they'll speed it up.

[bird]

But if the government has the ability to make a small task force, why don't they just use more of the blue goo and create entire police forces and armies of well trained supercops if the current heroes are such fuck ups? Why waste time policing these wasters instead of just replacing them with a government sponsored, trained task force? Super plot hole?

well that wouldn't make a very intersting story would it?

i really dig this series. i hear and read a lot of dislike for it, but it's a wed night read for me. it does try to have some sort of "shock" value and the hampster in the ass thing was a bit trite. but, i like the characters and the creepy superheros. it all makes me laugh.

looking forward to the next issue.

[Stellar]

I loved every issue of the boys until it turned out they were superpowered themselves. I thought about Sgt. Pepper's point, and it would indeed make the book less interesting. So would making the supposedly normal human cast supers. I was expecting stuff like what that officer pulled in Stormwatch: PHD. But apparently, Ennis thought otherwise.

It was a major downer.

[sgt pepper]

Of course it would make the book less interesting--it would negate the entire premise of the book. Obviously, that's why Ennis isn't going that route.

But that doesn't mean that Ennis's premise makes any more sense.

I like the book, but the premise has a gaping hole in it.

[Chris Thomas]

Of course it would make the book less interesting--it would negate the entire premise of the book. Obviously, that's why Ennis isn't going that route.

But that doesn't mean that Ennis's premise makes any more sense.

I like the book, but the premise has a gaping hole in it.

no gaping hole.

the superheroes in this book are sponsored--by the 'secret corporate oligarchy' that 'rules the world' --classic scifi-comic book theme. see many older wildstorm titles for good examples.

so--why doesn't the government make a bunch of superheroes as a task force officially? because the 'secret corporate oligarchy' doesn't let them.

so the government does it covertly.

in short: the government is partially ruled by the corporate oligarchy. the part that isn't controlled makes 'the boys' to secretly police the 'secret corporate oligarchy's superheroes.'

no gaping hole.